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Sydney Swans' Adam Goodes ruled out for rest of season, will miss semi-final against Carlton

Updated
Thu 12 Sep 2013, 6:51 PM AEST

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Out for the count ... Adam Goodes has been ruled out for the rest of the AFL season.

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The Sydney Swans have left star Adam Goodes out of their side for Saturday night's AFL semi-final against Carlton at Sydney's Olympic stadium.

The intensity of Tuesday's session meant that it was hard for him to back it up again today, so that's his season done.

Sydney coach John Longmire

In a major blow for the defending premiers, Goodes is also no chance to resume during this finals series.

Coach John Longmire told the club website that the star forward and midfielder was unable to complete Thursday training.

"Adam trained as hard as he had for quite a while on Tuesday and pulled up okay (on Wednesday), but he was a little bit sore in the warm-up today and, therefore, we decided not to push him," Longmire said on Thursday evening.

"It is not a case of him having reinjured his knee - he's still fine - but the intensity of Tuesday's session meant that it was hard for him to back it up again today, so that's his season done.

"It is obviously disappointing, but the reality is that Adam hasn't played for a significant amount of time and we have a great deal of confidence in the group of players who are available."

Goodes has been out of action since suffering a knee injury in round 13.

The Swans made two changes, with Ben McGlynn (calf) ruled out and Gary Rohan dropped.

Shane Biggs and Harry Cunningham will play their first AFL finals.

The Blues made no changes, but ruckman Matthew Kreuzer is yet to confirm he has recovered from the calf muscle injury he suffered in last Sunday's elimination final win over Richmond.

Brock McLean, who was a late withdrawal with a quad injury, was named as an emergency.